Spring
An unnamed tepid spring nine miles from Beatty in Nye County, on the 7J Ranch Preserve. The preserve is owned by a nonprofit and carries a private-conservation designation, and public access is recorded as unknown. That combination usually means ask first.
Roadside, about a hundred feet off a road with no name in the record. Desert around four thousand feet. Six inches of snow in a winter, five of rain in a year. Nothing on file describes the preserve land itself.
Winter is listed. Because the land is a private preserve with access unknown, contact the landowner before going. Water is tepid. Fee: none recorded. No campground and no water sample either.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 27 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from north to south, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 47% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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